It is a few days before Valentine's Day and he has recently split up with Clementine after a relationship that lasted a year.

Readers don't need to know what bloggers had for breakfast or whether they have split up with their girlfriend or not.

The lack of legal protection also means that many men who have split up with the mothers of their children have been frozen out of their children's upbringing, and have to go to court if they want to get access.

Origin

This was originally used in the sense ‘break up (a ship)’, describing the force of a storm or rock; it was borrowed from Middle Dutch splitten. The idiom split hairs dates from the late 17th century; split the difference arose in the early 18th century; split the atom is recorded from the early 20th century.